Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.

It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.